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To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed.
“One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.”
― I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
― I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
“Greece is internationally famous for three reasons. First it has more islands than people. Second, it used to be a part of Turkey. Third, its national hero, Alexander the Great, was a Yugoslavian.”
― Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter's Memoir
― Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter's Memoir
“Bhutto’s case was not a trial of murder, rather it was the overt murder of a trial -”
― Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter's Memoir
― Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter's Memoir
“I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.”
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Nikhil’s 2024 Year in Books
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